Serving as the Welsh National Poet until 2025, she intends to emphasise the potential that poetry has in helping people make sense of who they are and understand the world around them.

R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest whose poems celebrated Welsh nationalism, decried modern technology as a temptation for man to reject his spiritual nature, ...

For Afonydd: Poems for Welsh Rivers /Cerddi Afonydd Cymru, the publisher chose 50 poems from over 400 entries in response to an open call. Each poem is published side by side with its translation ...

Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's decision to take his stage name from the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas is "hugely important for Wales", an author has said. Jeff Towns, who wrote Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas ...

English remained the language of his poetry, although he did produce several prose works in Welsh, including his enigmatic 1985 autobiography which was written in the third person. It was entitled ...

Sarah McCreadie's delighted to be combining her football and writing passions to produce 15 poems.

As I wrote in a 2016 article for the magazine Religion & Liberty: “Allusions and literary references abound, from the sixth-century Welsh poem Y Gododdin, the Welsh Taliesin myths, Arthurian ...

“Look upon the fury of the sea; it has covered Maes Gwyddneu,” a 13th century Welsh poem reads. Local legend says the islands of Maes Gwyddneu were once ruled by a king, ...

“Look upon the fury of the sea; it has covered Maes Gwyddneu,” a 13th century Welsh poem reads. Local legend says the islands of Maes Gwyddneu were once ruled by a king, according to Simon ...

Each poem is published side by side with its translation either from, or into, Welsh, and the language the poem arrived in dictates which goes on the left page. "We wanted to give Welsh equal weight.